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A Magical Phoenix, from mythology and fantasy. Also known as a Firebird. A symbol of rebirth and new beginings. ... This version has been altered to look best on black apparel.
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Sales of this Design? – 4 sales so far :) / ‘Beach Series’ card by Karin Taylor ‘I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo Ocean Angel is a mixed media production (ink, charcoal, pastel, acrylics) on canvas textured paper. Ocean Angel is a beautiful mer-angel, a mythical creature from my own imagination….unlike the mermaids who are generally mischievous in folklore, Ocean Angel tends to care :D
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Sales of this Design? – 2 sales so far :) Razzamattaz Fairy joins us today on Red Bubble. / She came to life from a piece of paper and a little inspiration…..it grew from there! / In a crazy frenzy of pastel dust, charcoal, ink, acrylics, wool, silver thread and sparkles Razzamattaz was born…...out of the pastel dust she came to life to grace us with her presence and present herself on cards, to make herself known to others, bringing fairy magic wherever she goes. Hope you like Razzamattaz!
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Amazingly there are 20 species of Magpie in the world. Not quite sure which I have painted here… looks more like an Australian magpie Many people consider them superstitious, they certainly have their place in folklore, some believe they bring good luck, others believe bad. I remember being played Rossini’s Thriving Magpie when I was quite young; it is said they have a panache for shiny, silvery things which they like to steal and hide. / Here the magpie has found a key! I wonder where it came from? I see him as a ‘Keeper of Secrets’. / The selected text comes from a traditional rhyme I was told as a child: One for sorrow, Two for joy, / Three for a girl, Four for a boy, / Five for Silver, Six for Gold / Seven for a secret never to be told This is an acrylic painting on canvas.
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ORIGINAL FOR SALE $2800 plus P&H From the original Mandala, acrylic 100cm x 100cm with metallic and glitter overlays. The Hallows of Ireland The Morrigan – Samhain / Triple Goddess; Great Queen; Warrior Queen; Queen of War and Death; Shapeshifter (Raven/Crow); Protector; Goddess of Fertility / Bearing Claiomh Solais (The sword of light and death) / Wife of The Dagda The Dagda – Beltane / Master of Magic; Fearsome Warrior; Skilled Artisan / Guardian of Coire Anseasc, the never empty cauldron with healing powers / Master of the Harp / Husband to The Morrigan / Son of Danu / Father of Brigid Brigid – Imbolc / Exalted One; Bright Goddess; Goddess of healers, poets, smiths, women; Keeper of prophecies and dreams; The Flame of Ireland; Keeper of sacred wells and sacred earth; Goddess of Spring / Carrying Brigids Cross; Keeper of Lia Fail, the stone of destiny and coronation Danu – Lughnasadh / Great Mother; Goddess of faery ways; Goddess of fertility and wisdom; Goddess of Imagination; Earth Mother; Matriarch of the Tuatha De Danaan; Goddess of wealth and abundance / Carries the Spear Luin, the spear of might and light I never know where these Mandalas come from… All I know with this one is that I woke up one morning and The Morrigan was standing at the foot of my bed and the entire image was in my head and I just had to paint it… Now it sits on my wall and I look at it and wonder… Recently, while looking at this mandala, I saw that the big oak trees painted either sides of the four figures were forming the shape of the celtic cross underneath the sun cross… the more I look at this mandala, the more comes to me. I woke up one morning and came out into the kitchen just after I had finished this work and the rainbow was spot on the stone of destiny! It was goosepimple stuff, I tell you! The spirits walked my house that morning! These big powerful mandalas are connections… connections with spirit, connections with others, connections with myself. My ancient celtic ancestry is in full bloom… ALL RIGHTS RESERVED! Please DO NOT COPY this picture. It is protected in more ways than one… Cheers:) Marg
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Acrylic on textured canvas This was a commissioned painting I have recently finished. My brief was to paint a caped/hooded woman and to have the Chapel of St Catherine in the background. / / This unique building sits on a hilltop outside the village of Abbotsbury, Dorset, England. The current building is 14th-century, its history and the reason why it was built is unknown. The church is not a regular place of worship with only a handful of services each year. However people have been coming to the chapel more often in recent years. In a niche inside – candles, feathers, coins, an icon of the saint, and prayers written on scraps of paper, to God, to Jesus, to St Catherine, to nobody in particular, expressions of human need and feeling are left. They get cleared away now and then, but more come. According to legend, Catherine was a noble Roman woman from the Egyptian city of Alexandria of unusual beauty and intelligence who converted to Christianity. She protested against the worship of idols to the Emperor Maxentius, who called in 50 pagan philosophers to convince her of the error of her ways, but she ended up converting them instead. Maxentius offered to marry her but on her refusal had her beaten and imprisoned. Her torturers tried to break her on a spiked wheel, but it blew apart. Finally she was beheaded – though milk flowed from her severed neck instead of blood. Her body was carried by angels to Mount Sinai, where the monastery which bears her name still exists. During the Middle Ages she became an enormously popular saint and is often depicted in icons, paintings, statues and manuscripts. In art she often carries a book, a sword, or a martyr’s palm, as well as the wheel which is her symbol, and she’s the patron saint of those who work with wheels, scholars, unmarried women, and many other professions and conditions of people. In 1969, however, the Vatican decided to suppress her cult on the grounds of the historical unreliability of her legend.
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Hiya! :-) A mystical forest shrouded in mist. Shot where me and doggie take our walks together. :-) Have a great one! / Andreas Stridsberg / www.mystic-pic.com
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Zhong Kui (Chinese: 鍾馗; pinyin: Zhōng Kuí; Japanese: Shōki) is a person from ancient Chinese mythology. Traditionally regarded as a vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings, and reputedly able to command 80,000 demons, his image is often painted by ordinary persons on household gates as a guardian spirit, as well as in places of business where high-value goods are involved. As with legends and myths in many cultures a number of variations to his story can be found. There are many literary works, dramas, plays and more about him. According to Wikipedia and other folklore, myth and legend sources, Zhong Kui traveled with Du Ping (杜平), a friend from his hometown, to take part in the imperial examinations at the capital. Some versions of the story explain how his face became disfigured and his sword became magical after he visited some monks for a feast on his way to the examination. Though Zhong achieved top honors in the exams, his title of “zhuangyuan” was stripped by the emperor because of his disfigured appearance. In anger, Zhong Kui committed suicide upon the palace steps by hurling himself against the palace gate until his head was broken. Du Ping buried him. After Zhong became king of ghosts in Hell, he returned to his hometown on the Chinese New Year’s Eve. To repay Du Ping’s kindness, Zhong Kui gave his younger sister in marriage to Du. Zhong Kui’s popularity in folklore, myth and legend can be traced to the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China (712 to 756). According to Song Dynasty sources, once the Emperor Xuanzong was gravely ill. He had a dream in which he saw two ghosts. The smaller of the ghosts stole an embroidered perfumed purse from a favorite imperial consort, Yang Guifei, and a jade flute belonging to the emperor. The bigger ghost, wearing the hat of an official, captured the smaller ghost, tore out his eye and ate it. The bigger ghost then introduced himself as Zhong Kui and said he was sworn to rid the empire of evil. The Emperor awarded him with an honorable burial of a court official. Zhong Kui continues to be a popular figure in modern China.
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Clive loves the simple things in life – kicking back in his billabong with a Coopers Pale listening to his Triffids records.
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Original Creation Date: December 30th, 2006 The Snow Maiden, or Snegurochka, is an old Russian fairytale of an elderly couple that had the dream of having a daughter. One day, after a fresh snowfall, the couple fashioned a girl out of the snow and she magically came to life. But as the seasons changed from winter to spring, the Snow Maiden became increasingly sad. When summer came, the girl was in a deep depression. One day, while wandering the woods, the Snow Maiden came upon a group of girls. She began to hike with them until after dark, when the woods became colder and the girls built a camp fire to warm themselves by. Watching the girls jump over the camp fire one at a time, the Snow Maiden lept across the fire as well, but before she reached the other side of the fire she disappeared into little more than a watery mist. Charcoal on 90 lb. paper, 16” x 18”, freehand. / Ref. Model: Elin S. Original available for purchase. Note me for pricing.
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Hawaiian Fire Goddess Pele surfing.
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A golden phoenix with serpentine wings and flaming breath. Original artwork is 11×15” and was created with oil pastels, colored pencils, art pens and metallic paint pens on light green watercolor paper.
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A Homage to Judy Garland’s Larger Than Life Character. Featured on RB Homepage Featured in Core [C.O.R.E] Featured in Painted Ladies Featured in Unconventional Artistry Featured in Melbourne, Victoria
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According to European folklore, Melusine is a feminine water spirit, with the body of serpent or fish from the waist down, much like a mermaid. Sometimes she is also portrayed with a dragon’s body. She is considered a siren type figure or a nixie. According to Wikipedia “The most famous literary version of Melusine tales, that of Jean d’Arras, compiled about 1382–1394 was worked into a collection of “spinning yarns” as told by ladies at their spinning. .... It tells how Elynas, the King of Albany (an old name for Scotland) went hunting one day and came across a beautiful lady in the forest. She was Pressyne, mother of Melusine. He persuaded her to marry him but she agreed, only on the promise — for there is often a hard and fatal condition attached to any pairing of fay and mortal — that he must not enter her chamber when she birthed or bathed her children. She gave birth to triplets. When he violated this taboo, Pressyne left the kingdom, together with her three daughters, and traveled to the lost Isle of Avalon. The three girls — Melusine, Melior, and Palatyne — grew up in Avalon. On their fifteenth birthday, Melusine, the eldest, asked why they had been taken to Avalon. Upon hearing of their father’s broken promise, Melusine sought revenge. She and her sisters captured Elynas and locked him, with his riches, in a mountain. Pressyne became enraged when she learned what the girls had done, and punished them for their disrespect to their father. Melusine was condemned to take the form of a serpent from the waist down every Saturday. In other stories, she takes on the form of a mermaid. Raymond of Poitou came across Melusine in a forest in France, and proposed marriage. Just as her mother had done, she laid a condition, that he must never enter her chamber on a Saturday. He broke the promise and saw her in the form of a part-woman part-serpent. She forgave him. Only when, during a disagreement with her, he called her a “serpent” in front of his court, did she assume the form of a dragon, provide him with two magic rings and fly off, never to return.[1] In “The Wandering Unicorn” by Manuel Mujica Láinez, Melusine tells her tale of several centuries of existence from her original curse to the time of the crusades.[2]” The original image for this is 12×16” and was created with oil pastels, colored pencils and metallic paints on blue watercolor paper. In this portrait of her, I portrayed Melusine in a psychedelic/art nouveau type of style. I hope you enjoy….
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Depiction of the mythological figure of Melusine – a siren type figure with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a fish, serpent or even a dragon, depending on the legend. She is considered a water spirit. This work is created with mixed media (oil pastels, colored pencils, marker pen, and paint pen) on gray watercolor paper.
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Copyright of Poisonlolly media is paper. And I only use pen for the whole creation. Except for the eyes, I use colored pencil to do her make up :)) This illustration was made in 2008. It was inspired by vampires and wraith. Featured in THE TORCH Sept 12, 2009
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A serpentine hippocamp (mythical chimera/sea horse) in shades of green and gold. Made as a thank you present for someone. Original measures approx 12×19” / Created with oil pastels, colored pencils, gold and white paint, art pens on heavy textured green Strathmore artist paper. Sadly the original artwork appears to have been lost in the mail when sent to its new home :(
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This is my rather draconic take on the Mesoamerican deity of Quetzalcoatl, who is described as a “feathered serpent.” Mixed media on watercolor paper. 11×15”.
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If you like this painting, the original is still available in my Etsy Store
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River Sprite A Sprite might be a spirit; / a River Sprite might be a river spirit. / A mermaid may be a kind of sprite. / ...Then again, what do I know? / I’m just an alien on this planet, / merrily exploring your water, earth and sky, / and languages, foreign to me, still. / —F.A. Moore, Aug 20 2009 Digital Fine Art by F.A. Moore, August 2009 FEATURES 2008-08-22 River Sprite in Digital Artists United 2009-08-21 River Sprite in Abstract Art & Digital Writing This image started as the 2nd part—the tie in, to Isa Rodriguez’ and my ongoing attempt to collaborate on an Exquisite Corpse project. The top one inch of the bottom half was what she sent me, and I created like colors, shadows, bottoms of trees, such that it was difficult to tell where her one inch left off, and my half began. Couldn’t wait to get her full image this morning so that I could snap them together in PSE. However, alas, Isa seems to have lost her file. No PNG, no PSD, nothing has turned up yet. An attempt to recreate ended up wonderful, but with all colors, trees, and shadows offset from the original. Maybe we’re not suppose to be doing corpses. :)) Or, maybe the third time will be a charm. On this piece, while waiting for the top half from Isa, I simply mirrored my “spirit” to the top half and added some blending changes to get the darker, deep-water mirror image. Then overlaid granite on the entire shebang. Looked like a sprite to me, thus the name. It’s interesting to see that in the crook of the neck of the swan (in the top, mirror image), are little birds, in what looks like an egg cracked open. Only a River Sprite could create such unexplained magic! I humbly thank you for being part of my art. Special thanks to stock providers FantasyStock, CAStock, and B-SquaredStock for model, swan, trees, and textures. DETAIL: / (Click any image to view at 100% scale.) / Swan detail / Sprite detail / Deep water sprite detail
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Artwork featuring the Merry Maidens Stone Circle in Cornwall :)
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